01524nam a22002177a 4500 St Aloysius Coll 20260423183000.0 260423b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9789819707034 AL English 201.7 VADR Anil Kumar Vaddiraju 262531 Reason religion and modernity : Gadamer-Habermas debate Singapore Springer 2024 xx, 57p. PB 23.5x19.3cm General This book deals with the question of understanding religion and its relationship with politics in the context of developing countries. It reviews specific theories, such as modernisation theory, marxism, liberalism, hermeneutics and critical approach to explain questions related to religion and religious traditions. The book focuses on the recent attempts to theorise religion by Jurgen Habermas. It argues modernisation and orthodox Marxian theory are inadequate in understanding the recent spurt of religious phenomenon in politics. It discusses Hans-Georg Gadamer’s view to show a way forward regarding dialectical hermeneutics in facilitating a dialogue between different traditions and religions. The book is of interest to students, scholars, practitioners of development, and all those who concern themselves with the questions of religion, tradition, modernity and secular well-being in developing countries such as India and beyond. Religion Religion 262532 ddc BK 241341 241341 0 0 ddc 0 0 GEN SACPG SACPG 2026-04-16 0 201.7 VADR PG025256 2026-04-23 18:05:57 2026-04-23 BK